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Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Lansing v. Smith, a New York Court of Appeals case relevant to eminent domain law. Eaton v. Boston, Concord & Montreal Rail Road, a New Hampshire Supreme Court case decided in 1872. Romaine Tenney, Vermont farmer whose land was seized to build Interstate 91 and committed suicide in protest; Diminishment
The case gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to revisit a widely reviled decision that invited such eminent domain abuses. The Government Took a Developer's Land and Gave It to a Competitor. In ...
The operative law is a patchwork of statutes and case law. The principal acts are the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 ( 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18), [ 30 ] the Land Compensation Act 1961 , the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 , the Land Compensation Act 1973 , [ 31 ] the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 , part IX of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ...
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could use eminent domain to take land that was overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of private landowners and redistribute it to the wider population of private residents.
Kohl v. United States, 91 U.S. 367 (1875), was a court case that took place in the Supreme Court of the United States. It invoked the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and is related to the issue of eminent domain.
Alan Ackerman, a Birmingham-based eminent domain attorney, said that in these cases, properties are individually appraised and the city must make a good-faith offer, which could be challenged by ...
The case laid the foundation for the Court's later important public use cases, Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984) and Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005). Critics of recent occurrences of eminent domain uses trace what they view as property rights violations to this case.